China Communist Youth League lashes out at ‘extreme feminists’ after being criticised for lack of representation

The Communist Youth League of China, the official party organisation for Chinese youths, published an article that said “extreme feminism cannot be tolerated” after the group was criticised for not including a picture of any women in a series of photos showing key Communist Party moments.

Claiming that “extreme feminism has become a malignant tumour on the internet”, the League said that the criticisms had been an act of “online violence against the editors”.

On April 2, the organisation published a social media post that featured six images from some of China’s most famous moments in its history under the Communist Party – such as the Red Army’s Long March, Chinese soldiers crossing the Yalu River during the Korean war and constructing the Red Flag Canal in the 1960s.

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The League wrote on Weibo that the critics were “triggering public outrage” and that people online had engaged in “gender confrontation” to attract attention.

“Extreme feminism has become more rampant and its toxicity is fierce,” it wrote. “It’s urgent for all internet users to remove this tumour and let the online sphere regain a clean environment.”